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The Thrill of the Hack: PW Talks with Kevin Mitnick
In Ghost in the Wires, legendary computer hacker Kevin Mitnick recalls life on the lam for the crime of purloining source code.
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Q & A with Elise Broach
Elise Broach follows her E.B. White Read Aloud winner, Masterpiece, with another kid-pleasing mystery, Missing on Superstition Mountain, the first in a trilogy set in the American southwest.
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She prays for strangers: PW Talks with River Jordan
River Jordan didn't mean to write her latest book. She only meant to keep one simple New Year's resolution.
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Finding God In Cyberspace: PW Talks with Adam Thomas
In his first book, Adam Thomas asks, can God be found in computer games? On Facebook? Is God with us when we tweet? Is God, Thomas wants to know, online?
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Speaking for herself: PW Talks to Maria Ebrahimji
As a producer at CNN, Maria Ebrahimji is familiar with the spotlight—she's just not used to being in it. Although her childhood ambition was to be a news anchor, she realized early on that she was naturally drawn deeper into the story. "I believe that the power and value of journalism is really in producing," Maria says. "I'm very much one of those people that likes to work behind the scenes."
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The Poetry of Maps: PW Talks with Ken Jennings
In Maphead, Jeopardy! champ Ken Jennings surveys the world of the geography obsessed.
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Why I Write: By David Ignatius
I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story. I had written a front-page piece for the Wall Street Journal in 1983 about how the CIA had recruited Yasser Arafat's intelligence chief during the '70s.
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Deadlier than the Male: PW Talks with Stella Rimington
Stella Rimington talks about her career in Britain's MI5, of which she was appointed director general in 1992, and the heroine of her thriller series, MI5 agent Liz Carlyle.
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The Dark Side of Cape Cod: PW Talks with Peter Manso
In Reasonable Doubt, Peter Manso explores a Cape Cod murder with unintended consequences for himself.
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Strange and Memorable: PW Talks with Kevin Wilson
Kevin Wilson and his wife, poet Leigh Anne Couch, became parents at the same time he began to write The Family Fang. In the novel, Caleb and Camille Fang—fearing their children will kill their performance art careers—incorporate the kids into the work itself.
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Q & A with Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
Author-illustrator team Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler have been topping the U.K. bestseller charts over the last decade and a half, with such titles as A Squash and a Squeeze, Room on the Broom, Tabby McTat, and, most famously, The Gruffalo, which recently added to its many honors when the animated movie based on the book was recently nominated for an Oscar.
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Go West, Young Ladies! PW Talks with Dorothy Wickenden
Dorothy Wickenden's Nothing Daunted describes two well-bred young easterners who braved the Wild West.
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Such Devoted Sisters: PW Talks with Rosamund Lupton
British author Rosamund Lupton's debut novel, Sister, probes the multifaceted relationship between two tightly bonded sisters, Beatrice and Tess, and the reasons one took so long to understand their mother.
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Have Title, Will Travel: PW Talks with Daisy Goodwin
British television producer Daisy Goodwin turns her fascination with history into a captivating tale of love, class, and good old American know-how for her first novel, American Heiress.
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A Goofy Taste for Vigilantism: PW Talks with Sophie Littlefield
Feisty Stella Hardesty must rid herself of a blackmailer in Sophie Littlefield's third crime novel, A Bad Day for Scandal.
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A Narrative Symphony of the Civil War: PW Talks with Amanda Foreman
In A World on Fire, bestselling biographer Amanda Foreman traces turbulent Anglo-American relations during the Civil War.
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Jennifer Grant Remembers Her Father, Cary, in Forthcoming Memoir
Jennifer Grant, daughter of screen legend Cary and author of Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant (Knopf) hosted a pre-pub luncheon earlier this month for Southern California booksellers at the Ivy at the Shore in Santa Monica
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Why I Write: Harry Turtledove
Why do I write? The most basic answer, I suppose, is that I can't not do it. I've been telling stories on paper, first to myself and then to other people, for as long as I've been literate.
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Blood, Bones, and Profit: PW Talks with Scott Carney
Carney explores the enormous trade in human body parts—organs, wombs, bones, even human hair—in The Red Market.
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An Unapologetic Embrace of Sentiment: PW Talks with James S.A. Corey
Authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, who share the pseudonym of James S.A. Corey, discuss their first collaboration: Leviathan Wakes (Reviews, Mar. 14), the launch of a sprawling noir-influenced space opera series The Expanse.
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